Custom Login Page Link

This is the link and link title on the login page.

along with some code snippets on how to handle this:

http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/remove-wp-about-menu-from-toolbar#post-161711

There are a few options. First the manual edits:
Open the file:
/wp-includes/class-wp-admin-bar.php
And around line 456:

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add_action( 'admin_bar_menu', 'wp_admin_bar_wp_menu', 10 );

Comment it out or just remove the whole line. Now the WP links part is all gone!
But….. But……… If you wanted to edit those links to customise yourself, you could just go open up the file:
/wp-includes/admin-bar.php
You’ll see it all near the top, here is a short snippet:

if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
// Add "About WordPress" link	 $wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array('parent' => 'wp-logo', 'id' => 'about',	 'title'  => __('About WordPress'),	 'href'   => admin_url('about.php'),	 ) );
}

You will note much of the same on there.
The logo is part of a sprite which can be found here:

/wp-includes/images/admin-bar-sprite.png

Both of these options mean updating the code every time you upgrade your WP install.
And now the final option, which is the easiest, but its yet another plugin………

Remove WordPress Admin Bar Links

Enjoy, its free!!

He was a true visionary, a real special person with a passion that filled his life. He will be missed by many. I feel for both his family and close friends, I hope they take comfort in the fact he is and always will be admired by millions.

RIP Steve Jobs, you will be missed.

Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011 - From the Apple website

Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011 - From the Apple website

Just recently First Bus, a transport company in the UK have launched a new and annoying TV advert with the song based loosely on “The Children Are Our Future”. So not only do they aim to torture their staff and family but now they want to take a perfectly good song and ruin it whilst aligning it with their crap brand and poor business conduct.

So if you don’t know me to well you may well be wondering what my beef is here….

In 2004 my father was alive but living with terminal lung cancer and I was a driver with First Bus, a company which at first I thought was respectable, how wrong I was!

One night I had an instance on the busses just outside our main office, a group of youths were trying to get aboard to attack a passenger. I called for police backup whilst the office management stood outside their door doing nothing to protect their staff. I was left to fend off these attackers with my passenger. One of the thugs shouted at me whilst on the phone to the police “End the call before I end your life”.

Needless to say, this mixed into the equation with my father being terminally took its toll on me and so I requested for leave from work. I asked for it to be unpaid leave so I could spend valuable time with my father.

First Bus at Doncaster, specifically Pete Mare (however the prick spells his name) didn’t want to let me have time off work to spend with my father whilst he had his final days on Earth. I begged for unpaid leave or to give me a job once my father passed away, my father begged with them also. But they were heartless and pushed to sack me, they called it “Frustration Of Contract”.

Once my father passed away, I applied for a job with them again. I was invited in for an interview and some tests. I passed all their initial tests and the interview was great, but then the Rotherham training manager called me into his office and stated that they would not offer my a job and that First Bus Doncaster stated “Due to his past conduct, First as a company are not to employ him again”.

What past conduct, being harassed and threatened on a bus, offered no driver support, given no compasionate leave. Bullied into leaving the company.

I wasn’t the only one suffering at the hands of First Bus Doncaster management – So their slogan – Destroying Families since 2004.

I would never have wished anyone dead, but if Pete Mare were to suffer like my father and our family have then I would most likely raise a smile at that and take solace in the fact that Karma is a bitch. Harsh I know, but that is life.

Well if you don’t see the WordPress Admin Bar on the front end then it is likely your theme is missing two functions:

<?php wp_head(); ?>

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

The CSS for the admin bar is loaded through the wp_head() function and the navigation is pulled through the wp_footer() function.

wp_footer() should be added just before your HTML closing body tag and is used by plugins usually for such things as add Java.

<?php wp_footer(); ?>
</body>
</html>

wp_header() should be called just before the closing your HTML head code and is used for things like CSS, Meta data and so on. If you use script in your head and have java there, that may need to be written after the wp_header() function is called.

<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>

Last August (2010) I purchased a vehicle from Wrexham, we could not pick the car up straight away however I made inquiries with my insurance company to ensure I could drive the vehicle home to which they informed me I could. A week later we returned from vacation, my brother John drove us over to pick it up and within 20 minutes of picking the car up I was stopped….. No insurance.

I posted a chronological list of events in an earlier blog should you be interested in reading it: http://auroral.co.uk/2010/12/16/reliable-car-insurance-avoid-hastings-direct-life-wreckers/

Today was my third court hearing at the magistrates court in Northwich, Cheshire, some 2 hours away from my home. This time it was a special hearings case where they look at the information to hand, all my correspondence with Hastings Direct. All my interaction with the Financial Ombudsmen. I will be honest, I’m not a bad boy and this was a rather scary prospect in that I could loose money, get points, pay more for insurance and most importantly lose my clean driving license of over 10 years and all because I was misadvised by some idiot with a headset working in a call centre!

I got there, not sure what to expect. I was called in. They verified some details with me, received my new correspondence with the Financial Ombudsmen. The worships left the room to read all my correspondence and defence. Whilst out, the Clerk and prosecutor both said I should be fine and that after reading my case I should be out in 10 minutes or so.

The worships come in and even though the Clerk and prosecutor said I would be fine, I still found it nervy! They passed their verdict of “Not Guilty” stated I would have this whipped from my record, no points and no fine!

You can’t believe what a weight this is from my mind, I know it seems so trivial really in comparison to what is happening around the world but when you try to be all you can be and it seems you are being knocked down by a system which should serve and protect us, well its a little distressing.

I have to say that before my attendance today I really wasn’t sure which way this was going to unfold. I now have faith in our system once again!

Now……… Last week I received a letter from the Financial Ombudsmen with an offer from Hastings Direct of a measly £100 compensation…. I don’t think I will be accepting now…… Life Wreckers they are!!

Losing a loved one is heart breaking, but then to add insult to injury when those suffering question the Pastor as to why the healing didn’t work despite paying thousands of pounds or dollars and believing 100% they are told it must be their fault or the suffering persons fault for not believing enough or for having sinned. If you lost a child to faith healing where medical science could have helped and possibly saved lives, how would you react?

Throughout the internet I’ve come across comments calling the believers idiots, I have even seen some stating they deserve the consequences.  I personally find such comments disgusting we have to keep in mind that to some people in desperate times will take desperate and drastic measures, we might not always agree, we might even think the notion of placing our faith in some money hungry con artists is ridiculous but the simple fact is that we are not all the same and when all else seems to be failing, faith can be blinding. We should not blame the believers, we should blame the brain washers

In this production Derren took a scuba diver and trained him up within 6 months to be able to convince the world he was a faith healer, they jetted off to Texas in America where they attempted convince believers and other Pastors that he was the real deal. During the production they exposed con artists and what can only be named as legalised theft.

So Why Were Some Of The Psychics In Uproar, they were not the target of this show?

Did they feel threatened? Did they notice some of the confidence tricks are similar to that use within their own industry? How different is Faith Healing to Spiritual Faith Healing, are they not one in the same?

What some of the Psychics said (quotes may contain spelling mistakes), Angie Kruger was amongst the most vocal in their dislike of Derrens show:

Sigh – didn’t think much of the Derren Brown Fiasco.

He & his team spent more time deceiving innocent people than the *Douches* they were targeting.

Derren needs to move on give his ego a rest the show waz pittiful

Sad, bitter, twisted little man who’s ashamed of his own sexuality.

Its the believers faults there idiots.

He delights in ridiculing medium and psychic ability.

I cant watch him after seeing him produce a coin for a lady with inscription relating to a deceased loved one . He really overstepped the mark on that one Poor,poor lady . If she believed his trickery … it may have been enough for her never to consider a true communication via a true and compassionate medium . Shameful… just unbelieveable.

Derrens a little man trying to belitle people to make him look big.

He always comes across as extremely pompous and condescending because he thinks he ‘knows it all’ – which he clearly doesn’t.

To me it was yet again, another chance for Derren to wank his ego.

Most of the quotes above did in fact emanate from one medium and her followers in particular but that same feeling does come from a good few in the spiritual community. As a result, one of the consultants for Derren’s show and co-owner of Leaving Bethel, Woody Woods has come forward in voicing his defence to some of the statements above.

“We at Leaving Bethel are very driven to investigate and expose all who attempt to use “spirituality” to mislead and take money from others. The response made by these “psychics” only lead us to believe that they felt threatened by the show as maybe they too have something to hide as this programme was exposing the techniques used by the faith healing movement, a movement that is totally opposed to psychics. We would like to inform Angie and her fellow “psychics” that they have now been added to our list of belief systems to investingate and if relevant, expose in the future. We also want to acknowledge that real psychics do exist, people who do have the ability too see and hear beyond the veil. You know who you are and you have nothing to fear from us, but for those who are using false psychic, medium, clairevoyant abilites to make a fast buck…be afraid, be very afraid.

Is this war on all charlatans?

Leaving Bethel went on to state they were in the process of assigning specialist researchers who would look into cases of fakery where the aim is to deceive and defraud others. Later in the week though I believe conversations opened up through the power of Facebook between Leaving Bethel and Angie where Woody stated his article was not a direct attack on Angie Kruger despite it naming her personally.

I have it on good authority that Woody Woods will also be a guest speaker on this weeks show of Haunted Cornwall where co-host and psychic Angie Kruger will also be present, this could make for an explosive debate. I was also informed that Derren Brown is not yet aware of this movement by Leaving Bethel, I’m sure these things won’t take long to get back through the grape vine.

If you wish to know more about Angie Kruger and her work, you can check out her website http://www.angandrich.co.uk/

To read the full article from Leaving Bethel http://leavingbethel.webs.com/apps/blog/show/6915377-psychics-kick-out-at-derren-brown-s-miracles-for-sale

Haunted Cornwall airs 8pm – 10pm BST (For our international readers – The British Summer Time period begins on the last Sunday of March and ends on the last Sunday of October. The rest of the years is GMT)

Promotional video by Leaving Bethel:

This article was written for Supernatural World

Remove Default WordPress Bar

Unzip and upload the file “remove-wpbar.php” to your “mu-plugins” folder to have it activated for all websites. Or upload the file to your normal plugins folder and “Network Activate.

Well this quick set of pointers should help you out!

Log into your PHPMyAdmin or what ever you are using to edit your database.

1. Find the table “_users”.
2. Edit the row where the “user_login” column is equal to “admin”. Change the admin part to what ever is your desired user name.
3. Also edit the row where “user_nicename” column is equal to “admin” (same as above) Change this to your desired “nice” name (no spaces or such) – This is also used within BuddyPress for the profile link and @admin.
4. BuddyPress users will want to change their profile where it echoes out “admin”, this is located in the table “_bp_xprofile_data”.

Now you will most doubt have done all that but now can’t find the “Network Admin” link and section, well you need to edit one more thing:

5. Open the table “_sitemeta” There is a row “site_admins” with data under the column “meta-data”, it will look like this:

a:1:{i:0;s:5:"admin";}

You will want to change this including the number 5 which is the character count of your username, so in my instance it will look like this:

a:1:{i:0;s:3:"tim";}

Save and test it out, that should fix the issue for you.

Please note: There could well be other instances in the database on a multisite install, I haven’t thoroughly checked. I only worked through this to help another user find a solution, this worked for me and then worked for them. Always make a backup of your database first!

Hopefully this should help someone out there!

First of all if you are runing a vanilla install of WordPress you will have no doubt noticed that when system e-mails are sent out that the address is usually wordpress@yourdomain.com and of course you could most likely find a plugin to combat this but is a another plugin bloating your install really what you need?

So, where can you change this in the core code?

/wp-include/pluggable.php

Around line 391:

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$from_email = 'wordpress@' . $sitename;

Around line 1057:

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$wp_email = 'wordpress@' . preg_replace('#^www\.#', '', strtolower($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']));

So that is the default out of the way!

Now you are running BuddyPress and you notice that your “Contact Form 7″ or Supporter form is sending out e-mails with a sent address from noreply@yourdomain.com, of course this is damn annoying, it makes it more time consuming when you make replies, often you send an e-mail to yours noreply address and then get angry clients asking why you haven’t contacted them back, or if you use a support desk so you can’t just reply to that ticket. Its most annoying when all you need to do is reply yes or no and especially so when using the supporter form for your clients.

So the problem! It is actually buddypress causing the issue here. At least in 1.2.8 (Not checked other versions) You see it ads filters to the default WP_Mail function forcing its own headers. What you need to do is remove those filters and everything will be back working as it should.

Contact Form 7, Add the following:

remove_filter('wp_mail_from', 'bp_core_email_from_address_filter' );
remove_filter('wp_mail_from_name', 'bp_core_email_from_name_filter');

In the compose_and_send_mail() function around line 693:

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	function compose_and_send_mail( $mail_template ) {
 
		remove_filter('wp_mail_from', 'bp_core_email_from_address_filter' );
		remove_filter('wp_mail_from_name', 'bp_core_email_from_name_filter');
 
		$regex = '/\[\s*([a-zA-Z_][0-9a-zA-Z:._-]*)\s*\]/';

Now it will use what ever you stipulate in the admin area of Contact 7 which is usually the e-mail address for the person contacting you!

And the WPMUDEV Supporter plugin, open the following:

/wp-content/mu-plugins/supporter-premium-support.php

Add it to the supporter_support_page() function which is approx. line 94 it should then look like this:

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function supporter_support_page() {
  global $current_user;
 
	remove_filter('wp_mail_from', 'bp_core_email_from_address_filter' );
	remove_filter('wp_mail_from_name', 'bp_core_email_from_name_filter');

You could if you wished wrap it up in some conditional statements to check for BuddPress first, but for me it is always installed, at least for now!

If you are not using BuddyPress or you still have this issue after removing the filters then chances are there is another plugin or even theme which is forcing its use of the wp_mail() function.

Note: One thing to remember is that making changes directly to the main files of WP, a plugin or theme means that when you come to upgrade you will need to remember to make those changes again! I prefer this over bloating an install with plugin after plugin.